When She Stops Playing Nice

Chapter 10

After pocketing the bank card, Gina glanced at Mason, who was lurking behind Ethan. She signaled. “Bring him here.”

Fuming, Ethan, blaming Mason for his humiliation, grabbed him and threw him in front of Gina.

Gina flexed her wrist and landed a punch on Mason’s trembling face, causing his teeth to rattle and sending him crashing to the ground, his world going dark.

With her foot pressing down on Mason’s face, Gina demanded, “Delete the post, clear my name, and apologize.”

Tears and snot running down his face, Mason blubbered. Tll delete it. Please, get off me. I’m sorry, I screwed up, I’m the

Worst

Aria scoffed. “Suddenly all apologetic, huh? Thought you were Mr. Tough Guy.”

While sobbing. Mason scrambled to access the campus network on his phone, deleted the defamatory post, and published an apology under his real name.

Aria commented on the post right away. [All fluff, no stuff. Seriously, who buys this trashy gossip?]

Some recognized Aria’s account and, looking to curry favor or genuinely outraged, slammed the original post for spreading

Tumors.

Yet, others sensed something off about Mason’s apology, speculating he might have been threatened. But it was hard to imagine who would bother defending Gina, notorious as she was.

The apology stirred less buzz than the original rumor, but Gina wasn’t bothered. She knew many didn’t care for the truth; they just relished the chance to stomp on her a bit more.

The whole mess killed Ethan’s mood for drinking, prompting him to leave.

dealing with Mason, Gina bid Aria farewell and returned

million

and the rest to build schools in impoverished areas,” Gina

grew up, under the care of a kind–hearted director who often dipped into his own pockets to keep it running. Over twenty years, the orphanage expanded, and Gina was more

“Understood,” Michael responded.

is

raised an

hardship, she had briefly been fostered by a well–off couple who had a son. The couple was good to her, but

even considering going back to the orphanage. Before she could act on it, tragedy struck: the couple was found dead, their family

them.

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and Gina was determined to find the killer. And she

it be their biological

the boy before,

shut. The murder was executed

find them and tear them to pieces,

and see if they take the

named “Neil” on WhatsApp. [Done

up? Wait, scratch that. How about you come over for dinner tomorrow? You

Gina didn’t object. It was the perfect excuse for her to check up on Neil’s recovery. Rather than giving out her address, she sent him a pin to a nearby bus

Neil replied: [Deal!]

Gina stood by the bus stop when a Maybach slowly pulled up.

me.” Gina

me to pick you up. Please, after you, the driver

the car, bringing along two jars of